Taxing The Poor
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Taxing The Poor
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Author : Katherine S. Newman
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2011-02-27
Taxing The Poor written by Katherine S. Newman and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-27 with Social Science categories.
This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to income taxes, and where regressive sales taxes apply even to food for home consumption. Katherine S. Newman and Rourke L. O’Brien argue that these policies contribute in unrecognized ways to poverty-related problems like obesity, early mortality, the high school dropout rates, teen pregnancy, and crime. They show how, decades before California’s passage of Proposition 13, many southern states implemented legislation that makes it almost impossible to raise property or corporate taxes, a pattern now growing in the western states. Taxing the Poor demonstrates how sales taxes intended to replace the missing revenue—taxes that at first glance appear fair—actually punish the poor and exacerbate the very conditions that drove them into poverty in the first place.
The Rich The Poor And The Taxes They Pay
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Author : Joseph A. Pechman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-11
The Rich The Poor And The Taxes They Pay written by Joseph A. Pechman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-11 with Political Science categories.
This book presents a selection of essays on public finance, which is concerned with taxation, income maintenance, and social security, with emphasis on the analysis of policy alternatives to improve tax and transfer systems. It is useful for those who are interested in learning tax policy issues.
Taxing The Working Poor
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Author : Achim Kemmerling
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Taxing The Working Poor written by Achim Kemmerling and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Political Science categories.
Kemmerling deftly intertwines the efficiency theory of taxation with the political basis of taxing the working poor. . . This commendable effort in interdisciplinary study and the comparative analysis of taxation is an essential reference for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as faculty and professionals of economics, political science, and taxation systems of Europe. S. Chaudhuri, Choice Taxing the Working Poor is an inspiring read for political scientists and economists interested in the relationship between taxation and employment. Based on an elegant combination of econometric analysis and historical case studies, it shows that the alleged trade-off between employment and progressive taxation has political rather than economic roots. Philipp Genschel, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany What are the economic and political forces which generate different regimes of tax on labour? What are the implications for the labour market of these different regimes? And does globalisation bring a halt to tax-based redistribution? Achim Kemmerling tackles these and other important questions in this significant book. Malcolm Sawyer, University of Leeds, UK We have been distracted from the detailed problems of financing the welfare state by the tired old twentieth-century debate between libertarian tax minimisers and maximal socialist collectivisers. We have to move on. The welfare state has to be accepted and the detailed problems of taxation to sustain it have to be addressed. This well-researched and fascinating book addresses the political and institutional origins of different tax systems and points to viable strategies of redistribution and reform. Geoffrey M. Hodgson, University of Hertfordshire, UK In most industrialized countries the tax burden of poor people has increased dramatically over the last few decades. This book analyses both the political origins of this increase and its consequences for the labour market. Achim Kemmerling illustrates that tax-based redistribution and employment are not incompatible, and that the shift away from redistribution has not occurred on grounds of economic efficiency. He goes on to show that a long-term shift from capital to labour taxation has provoked conflicts of interests between workers that have weakened the political cause of tax-based redistribution. This interdisciplinary account of the political economy of taxing low wages explains the historical and structural origins of political tensions between different types of workers and their effects on the performance of labour markets. As such, it will strongly appeal to a wide-ranging audience, including academics, students and researchers with a special interest in political science, political economy, labour markets and the economics of taxation. Practitioners in the field of labour market, social and tax policies interested in the normative consequences of taxation for the labour market will also find the book to be of great interest.
Tax Reform The Rich And The Poor
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Author : Joseph A. Pechman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Tax Reform The Rich And The Poor written by Joseph A. Pechman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Taxation categories.
Taxing The Rich
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Author : Kenneth Scheve
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2017-11-07
Taxing The Rich written by Kenneth Scheve and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-07 with Political Science categories.
A groundbreaking history of why governments do—and don't—tax the rich In today's social climate of acknowledged and growing inequality, why are there not greater efforts to tax the rich? In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage ask when and why countries tax their wealthiest citizens—and their answers may surprise you. Taxing the Rich draws on unparalleled evidence from twenty countries over the last two centuries to provide the broadest and most in-depth history of progressive taxation available. Scheve and Stasavage explore the intellectual and political debates surrounding the taxation of the wealthy while also providing the most detailed examination to date of when taxes have been levied against the rich and when they haven't. Fairness in debates about taxing the rich has depended on different views of what it means to treat people as equals and whether taxing the rich advances or undermines this norm. Scheve and Stasavage argue that governments don't tax the rich just because inequality is high or rising—they do it when people believe that such taxes compensate for the state unfairly privileging the wealthy. Progressive taxation saw its heyday in the twentieth century, when compensatory arguments for taxing the rich focused on unequal sacrifice in mass warfare. Today, as technology gives rise to wars of more limited mobilization, such arguments are no longer persuasive. Taxing the Rich shows how the future of tax reform will depend on whether political and economic conditions allow for new compensatory arguments to be made.
Negative Taxes And The Poverty Problem
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Author : Christopher Green
language : en
Publisher: Washington : Brookings Institution
Release Date : 1967
Negative Taxes And The Poverty Problem written by Christopher Green and has been published by Washington : Brookings Institution this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Business & Economics categories.
Conference paper prepared for a meeting to study negative taxation as a means of alleviating poverty in the USA - covers income and social policy, social assistance and welfare programmes, social security plans, family benefits, etc. Conference held in madison 1966 June 8 and 9.
Tax Credits For The Working Poor
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Author : Michelle Lyon Drumbl
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-09-30
Tax Credits For The Working Poor written by Michelle Lyon Drumbl and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-30 with Law categories.
The United States introduced the earned income tax credit (EITC) in 1975, where it remains the most significant earnings-based refundable credit in the Internal Revenue Code. While the United States was the first country to use its domestic revenue system to deliver and administer social welfare benefits to lower-income individuals or families, a number of other countries, including New Zealand and Canada, have experimented with or incorporated similar credits into their tax systems. In this work, Michelle Lyon Drumbl, drawing on her extensive advocacy experience representing low-income taxpayers in EITC audits, analyzes the effectiveness of the EITC in the United States and offers suggestions for how it can be improved. This timely book should be read by anyone interested in how the EITC can be reimagined to better serve the working poor and, more generally, whether the tax system can promote social justice.
Why Are The Poor Poor
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Author : Perce Harpham
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2020-12-17
Why Are The Poor Poor written by Perce Harpham and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-17 with categories.
This book is for Politicians, Social Scientists, Economists, the Wealthy, the Middle Class, Workers, Activists, Students, the Disadvantaged. And all those who care about people and the planet. Something like the Basic Incomes and taxation system changes suggested here are urgently needed because of the Covid19 pandemic. Thomas Piketty's book "Capital in the 21st Century" in 2014 was a compelling account of how concentrated wealth shapes the world. And how wealth and power inexorably increase inequality. The book became a best seller and is now made easily digestible by a film of the same name. Various solutions have been promulgated. Some have been advocated for many decades and are now gaining greater traction. This book explores some of the systems used by Governments which contribute to the continued rise in inequality and will propose some solutions. Most of these ideas have had extensive coverage at a philosophical level but almost nothing has been published about the practical difficulties of the detailed design, costs, funding, political acceptability and transition from the present systems, This book is an attempt to provide a "sketch plan" of some of the work that is required to make the dreams come true. For example New Zealand, as other countries, is borrowing or creating money to finance recovery from the pandemic. This provides an opportunity to reform our inequitable personal Income Tax system such that everyone gets the same advantage from the tax exemptions. Currently the exemptions from the 33% rate benefit those on incomes of $70,000/yr and above by NZ$9080/yr whereas someone with no income gets no benefit at all and on $14,000/yr the benefit is only $3,150 /yr and increasing with each step in the structure as incomes increase.. If everyone paid the full 33% but received $9080/yr the 82% of the population earning less than $70,000/yr would pay more tax but would be better off and those above $70,000/yr would be in the same net position as at present. The arithmetic shows that Government would only have to put in some $7bn of new money and since, under the Covid recovery program, it will not have been taken from someone else via their taxes this new money will result in new expenditure which will return GST to the Government. What is not so returned will be spent again with more GST returned. After multiple cycles Government will get most of the new money back again.Clearly since the
To Him Who Hath
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Author : Frank Field
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
To Him Who Hath written by Frank Field and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Business & Economics categories.
Fuel Taxes And The Poor
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Author : Thomas Sterner
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2012-03-29
Fuel Taxes And The Poor written by Thomas Sterner and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-29 with Law categories.
Fuel Taxes and the Poor challenges the conventional wisdom that gasoline taxation, an important and much-debated instrument of climate policy, has a disproportionately detrimental effect on poor people. Increased fuel taxes carry the potential to mitigate carbon emissions, reduce congestion, and improve local urban environment. As such, higher gasoline taxes could prove to be a fundamental part of any climate action plan. However, they have been resisted by powerful lobbies that have persuaded people that increased fuel taxation would be regressive. Reporting on examples of over two dozen countries, this book sets out to empirically investigate this claim. The authors conclude that while there may be some slight regressivity in some high-income countries, as a general rule, fuel taxation is a progressive policy particularly in low income countries. Rich countries can correct for regressivity by cutting back on other taxes that adversely affect poor people, or by spending more money on services for the poor. Meanwhile, in low-income countries, poor people spend a very small share of their money on fuel for transport. Some costs from fuel taxes may be passed on to poor people through more expensive public transportation and food transport. Nevertheless, in general the authors find that gasoline taxes become more progressive as the income of the country in question decreases. This book provides strong arguments for the proponents of environmental taxation. It has immediate policy implications at the intersection of multiple subject areas, including transportation, environmental regulation, development studies, and climate change. Published with Environment for Development initiative.